Medical
Not surprisingly, researchers have established brain tissue loss in high altitude summiters. Now to study politicians.
The milk contamination saga goes on. How did so many people become involved without anyone stopping to ask whether this was ultimately a good thing? Reminds me of sub-prime.
Fifteen more Chinese dairy companies were identified Wednesday as producing [...]
The state of blogging report by technorati says around 1.5 million blogs updated in the last week, 900k in the last 24 hours…
Bloggers have been at it an average of three years and are collectively creating close to one million posts every day. Blogs have representation in top-10 web site lists across all [...]
Over the past week with so many earnings reports and macro developments (and guest posting on Naked Capitalism) I’ve gotten into the bad habit of tucking general tech news items aside for posting later… the result is a tray full. By the end of the day I will be back in real-time.
In October, Esquire will [...]
Cringely does the Moore’s Law math and works out that faster television video decoders (both hardware and software improvements) combined with higher bandwidth will create a world where each US TV has access to a real-time, customised 1080p (HD) video feed by 2015, and “commercial television as we know it will die”:
Ten years ago, the [...]
Cringely thinks the PA Semi purchase was done to provide a second source to Intel – something Apple is renowned for.
CPU architectural advances are achieving minimal returns these days. It is all about multiple cores and clock rates, nothing else. This means that Intel chips are a commodity, and have become effectively [...]
This week’s Cringely argues that schools are on the way out…
We’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. [...]
Cringely entertains and informs, as per usual, with an essay on problems cropping up from an industry-wide switch beginning in 2006 to lead-free solder.
When you’ve replaced everything else the problem has to be with what’s left, which in the case of my car was the wires, themselves. Over the years the wires had somehow corroded [...]
As usual, Cringely has an unusual take on the YHOO bid by MSFT. From I, Cringely @ PBS:
Were they cast as characters in The Wizard of Oz, Yahoo would play the Cowardly Lion and Microsoft the Tin Woodman. No Scarecrow would be required since there are plenty of brains at each company to go around… [...]
Along with the 2007 Recaps it’s only fair to list the 2008 Predictions as they come in… let ‘em roll:Economist: Technology in 2008 – slowing Internet, good for Juniper and Cisco; mobile Internet takes off due to 700MHz auction mandating an open network; open source continues to gain at the expense of Microsoft and even [...]
Funnily enough, I was playing with, and drooling over, an Apple iTouch in the store today; and during my habitual pre-purchase cooling off period I came to the view that it was indeed perfect; but needs to be bigger. Wonderful software, wonderful interface, wonderful screen; too small. I want to access my desktop pdf, mp3, [...]